A Plain-Talking EAD Tag Library

<corpname> Corporate Name

<corpname> is a proper noun name that identifies an entity—either an organization or a group of people. LoC lists examples as names of associations, institutions, business firms, non-profit enterprises, governments, government agencies, projects, programs, religious bodies, churches, conferences, athletic contests, exhibitions, expeditions, fairs, and ships.

Should the <corpname> element also be the creator/compiler of materials, it should be used within <origination> as well as <controlaccess>. Should <corpname> be the name of the institution providing intellectual access to the described materials, it should be used within <repository> as well as anywhere else it may be appropriate..

Attributes

@altrender – not required. Use if the content of the element should be displayed or printed differently than the rendering established in a style sheet for other occurrences of the element.

@audience – not required. Use to set whether the element’s contents will be visible to external users or to internal ones. Possible values are: “internal” and “external.”

@id – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking.

@identifier – not required. A machine-readable unique identifier related to the authority record for the name used.

@lang – not required. Three-letter code that indicates the language in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 639-2b.

@localtype – not required. This attribute may be used within a number of elements. Its use and values are not defined by the schema and may be defined locally.

@normal – not required. Can be used to provide the authority form if the name is being used informally within narrative text, etc.

@relator – not required. Use it to specify either as a URI or a phrase (string), other relationship(s) the corporate name has to the described materials, for example, “compiler,” “creator,” “collector,” or “subject”. Replaces and extends functionality of @role from EAD 2002.

@rules – not required. May be used to specify the descriptive rules followed when forming the name.

@script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.

@source – not required. The source of the controlled vocabulary, e.g. “lcsh” for Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Child Elements

<corpname> must contain at least one <part> which contains its data. More parts may be used to designate sections. See <part> for more information on how it should be used.

Examples

<controlaccess><persnameencodinganalog="600"relator="creator"rules="wizlib"identifier="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Salazar_Slytherin"><partlocaltype="surname">Slytherin</part><partlocaltype="forename">Salazar</part><partlocaltype="dates">d. circa 1100</part></persname><famnamenormal="Slytherin family"rules="wizlib"identifier="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Slytherin_family"><part>Slytherin family</part></famname><corpnameencodinganalog="610"normal="Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"rules="wizlib"identifier="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_School_of_Witchcraft_and_Wizardry"><part>Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry</part></corpname><subjectencodinganalog="650"normal="Magical History, 11th century"rules="wizlib"><part>Magical History</part><part>11th century</part></subject><genreformencodinganalog="655"normal="Spell books"rules="wizlib"><part>Spell books</part></genreform><genreformencodinganalog="655"normal="Diaries"rules="wizlib"><part>Diaries</part></genreform><genreformencodinganalog="655"normal="Letters"rules="wizlib"><part>Letters</part></genreform><geognameencodinganalog="651"rules="wizlib"><part>Great Britain</part><part>11th century</part></geogname><occupationencodinganalog="656"rules="wizlib"><part>Professor</part><part>Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry</part></occupation></controlaccess>

Changes from EAD 2002

<corpname> gained @identifier, @lang, and @script attributes. The attribute @role was replaced and expanded by @relator. It has a new parent element <archref> but may no longer be used within <extref>, <extrefloc>, <label>, <physdesc>, <physfacet>, and <refloc>. More importantly, it lost all child elements and gained <part>, which encodes the sections of the name.